Cryptandra intonsa is a flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with linear to narrowly oblong leaves and white or cream-coloured, tube-shaped flowers arranged in head-like clusters.
Cryptandra intonsa is a shrub that typically grows to a height of, its branchlets not spiny, its young stems densely covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly oblong, long and wide, on a petiole long with stipules long at the base. The upper surface of the leaves is minutely pimply, the lower surface mostly concealed, and there is a prominent, downcurved point on the tip. The flowers are white or cream-coloured and borne in head-like clusters of 7 to 15, wide with 6 to 9 egg-shaped floral bracts at the base of each flower. The floral tube is long and joined at the base for . The sepals are long and densely hairy, the style about long. Flowering occurs from September to December, and the fruit is a schizocarp long.[1]
Cryptandra intonsa was first formally described in 1995 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected in 1993.[2] The specific epithet (intonsa ) means "unshaved" or "bristly", referring to the appearance of the young stems.
This cryptandra grows in heath with scattered mallees and is found from near Middle Iron Cap to near Hatters Hill in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of inland Western Australia.
Cryptandra intonsa is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.